Tablet-arm chair.



Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

WIT/V588 ATTORNEY.

ALBERT WANNER, an, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

TABLET-ABM CHAIR.

i I Specification of Letters Patent. i Q

Patented sat. 5, 1516.

Application filed March 27, 1915. Serial No. 17,467.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT WANNER, J R., a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tablet-Arm Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a tablet arm attachment for chairs of such a construction that such attachment may be assembled, as the demand for tablet arm chairs arises, with any chair made up primarily to be used as an armless chalr, and when so assembled form with the chair a strong, substantial and durable structure.

According to this invention, the tablet arm, fastened at its rear end in any suitable way to the back-and-back-leg structure of the chair, is supported by a U-shaped brace (having its extremities projecting rearwardly) which connects it with the seat and by a curved angle brace which connects it with the back-and-back-leg structure, the two braces being so connected with the tablet arm, side by side, that the tablet arm is not only supported against downward pressure but against lateral, and especially outward, displacement.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. applied to a chair of the bent-wood type; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan View thereof; and, Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional View on the line a3-m of Fig. 1.

a in the drawing is the back-and-back-leg structure of an ordinary bent-wood chair, 6 is its seat and 0 its front legs.

at is the tablet arm, which is a board formed wide at the front and tapered at the back, the inside of its rear portion being cut out so as in plan to follow substantially the contour of the seat and give body room for the occupant. The rear end of the tablet arm is preferably recessed to fit one of the side members of the back-and-back-leg structure, and it is secured to said member by the screw 6; any other joint between said tablet arm and member may be employed, as will be obvious.

As the means principally operative to support the tablet arm against downward pressure I employ the U-shaped brace f.

This is preferably formed of bent-wood, and has its extremities projecting rearwardly. Its upper extremity f is "flattened off on the upper side and secured against the under side of the tablet arm by the screws 9; its

lower extremity f is similarly flattened off on the inside and secured against the side of the seat 6 by the screws h.

Having only the brace f to support it, it is found that under pressure undue strain comes upon the joint at e, the limber character of the brace f permitting the arm to yield downwardly and somewhat outwardly, as would not be possible (since the peculiar disposition of the bracewith its extremities projecting rearwardly-makes it amply adapted to resist pressure applied in the direction of its own plane) if means were provided to resist the outward displacement. I therefore provide the auxiliary brace i, which is a suitable length of bent wood having one end bent off at an angle to the other. One extremity z" of said brace 71 is secured by screws j to the under side of the tablet arm; the other extremity thereof 71" is secured by screws 70 to the side of the member of the back-and-back-leg structure a to which the tablet-arm is joined. Said extremities are preferably flattened off where they bear against the table arm and said member, as shown. It is to be noted that the extremity z" of the brace 71 extends beside the extremity f of the brace f. This is an important feature of the present invention as thereby the braces coact not only in supporting the tablet arm against downward displacement but against lateral displacement otherwise incident to the limber nature of the brace f.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 2-- 1. In combination, a. chair having a backand-back-leg structure, a seat and front legs, a tablet arm projecting forwardly from said structure and attached thereto, a U-shaped brace having its upper and lower extremities respectivelyattached to the tablet arm and seat and projecting 'rearwardly, and means, rigidly connecting the tablet arm and said structure, to prevent lateral movement of the former.

2. In combination, a chair having a backand-back-leg structure, a seat and front legs, one extremity attached to the tablet arm and a tablet arm projecting forwardly from the other to said structure, the extremity of said structure and attached. thereto, a U- the auxiliary brace which is attached to the 14 shaped brace having its upper and lower tablet arm being beside the corresponding 5 extremities respectively attached to the extremity of the other brace.

tablet arm and seat and projecting rear- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. wardly, and a curved auxiliary brace having ALBERT WANNER, JR.

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